Alum Highlights

NYFA Alum Nathan Hale: Cinema as a Vehicle for Advocacy
September 21, 2022

NYFA Alum Nathan Hale: Cinema as a Vehicle for Advocacy

NYFA alum Nathan Hale is an award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author and entertainment attorney. Hale is a two-time NAACP Image Award® nominee, the recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Prestige Award for…

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Allan Ungar on Directing ‘Bandit’, an Ode to Toronto
September 8, 2022

Allan Ungar on Directing ‘Bandit’, an Ode to Toronto

  Five years ago, NYFA Teen Filmmaking alum Allan Ungar, a new director at the time, was sent scripts for films “people thought [he] wanted to make.” Ultimately, these scripts…

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MasaliBaduzaNYFAAlum
August 24, 2022

A TWO FRONT WAR: BLACKNESS & REPRESENTATION IN ‘THE WOMAN KING’

The film Black Panther (2018) laid to rest the myth that Black (especially dark-skinned) leads could not carry feature films to box-office victory. The film earned $1.348 billion at the box office…

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